CHANUTE — So long, Royster.
The Chanute USD 413 Board of Education recently approved a rebranding process to ensure all of the district’s attendance centers are a part of the “Chanute Blue Comets” family.
Along with adhering to the district’s blue-and-gold color scheme, some centers have been renamed, the Chanute Tribune reported.
Most notably, Royster Middle School, with its red and black school colors, is now known as Chanute Middle School, the paper said.
The Lincoln Early Learning Center also will be renamed the Chanute Early Learning Center.
Board members voiced a consensus wanting to see these changes made all at once, instead of being phased in over several years, the newspaper reported.
The changes will carry a price tag of about $124,400, for new exterior signage, interior paint, rugs, benches, gym floor repainting, gym mats, bleacher panel replacement and activity uniforms.
Superintendent Matt Koester told the paper that some changes would go into effect immediately. By Thursday morning, logos and names had already begun to change the impacted social media pages.
